Separating-con denser



(No Model.)

F. SONIER.

SEPARATING CONDENSER.

Patented Nov.

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7 IJNrTn STATES FRANK SONIER, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

SEPARATlNG-CONDENSER.

SL ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,002, dated November 11, 1884.

Application filed January 19, 1884. (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK- SONIER, of Peoria, in the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Separating-Condenser; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, in which Figure l is a vertical sectional view of my improved separating-condenser, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line or m, Fig. 1, showing a portion broken away, and Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of a portion of the lower funnel-shaped vessel and one rib, showing a portion of the latter broken away.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of condensers having an upper chamber communicating with a lower chamber by means of a number of vertical pipes, the entire apparatus being surrounded by water or similar cooling medium, and in which the heavier products of distillation are carried off from the lower chamber back into the still, while the lighter products of distillation are carried off to a cooler through a separate pipe; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings the letterA indicates a preferably cylindrical casing or water-jacket, which is'adapted to contain the cooling-fluid,which may be water or any other suitable cooling-fluid, and a cupola or dome shaped vessel, B, is supported in the upper end of this casing, and has a pipe, 0, which leads from the still, entering its dome-shaped top, while the flat bottom D of the vessel B has a number of thin pipes, E, opening through it with their upper ends, the low er en ds of the said pipes opening through the flat top F of an inverted conical or funnel shaped vessel, G, supported at the lower end of the water-jacket, and provided with an outlet-pipe, H, at its downwardly-pointing apex, which pipe leads back into the still. Perforated hollow ribs I are secured upon the sides of the funnel-shaped lower vessel, consisting of strips of perforated sheet metalbent to be V-shaped in section, and secured to the sides of the fun nel-shaped vessel at their edges, having their ends open, and the said ribs serve to re-enforce the sides of the said funnel-shaped vessel, without interfering with the free flow of the condensed vapors, by reason of their being perforated and open at the ends. A pipe, J enters through the side of the water-jacket, and is bent to pass axially down through the same between the thin pipes E, and the lower end of this pipe passes through the center of the flat top of the funnel-shaped vessel, and is provided inside the said top with a flaring funnel-shaped mouth-piece, K, the edges of which reach within a very short distancefrom the perforated ribs. The water-jacket is provided with an inlet-pipe, L, and an outletpipe, M, for the purpose of producing a con stant current through the same. It will now be seen that the products of distillation entering through the pipe at the top of the domeshaped vessel will pass through the thin vertical pipes andbe cooled, which will cause the heavier products of distillation to be condensed and pass down the sides of the funnelshaped vessel into the pipe passing back to the still, while the more volatile products will not condense, but ascend into the funnel shaped mouth-piece of the pipe J,which carries the vapors to the cooler, where they are condensed. It will be seen that the funnelshaped mouth-piece of the pipe carrying the more volatile products of distillation to the cooler will effectually collect the said pro ducts, and it will also be seen that the perforated hollow ribs in the funnel-shaped lower vessel will brace the sides of the same, while they at the same time will not interfere with the free passage downward of the condensed vapors or upward of the more volatile vapors.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to have a condenser consisting of a water-jacket, an upper chamber, and a lower funnel-shaped chamber, the said chambers connected by means of thin pipes, pipes conveying the products of distillation to the upper chamber, and the condensed products out of the lower chamber, and a pipe opening in the lower chamber and carrying off the non-condensed products, and I do not claim such construction, broadly; but

I claim In a condenser consisting of an upper chamber and a lower funnel-shaped chamber, the said chambers connected by thin pipes and surrounded by a water-jackethaving an inletpipe in the upper chamber, and an outletpipe in the lower chamber, the combination of the lower funnel-shaped chamber having the perforated hollow ribs upon its inner sides with the pipe for the passage of the volatile products of distillation passing from the side through the waterjacket, passing downward axial to the said jacket, and provided at'its lower end inside the top of the lower chamber with a funnelshaped mouthpiece extending nearly to the sides of the 1 chamber,'as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of January, 1884.

FRANK SONIER.

Witnesses:

H. W. WELLs, A. B. UPHAM. 

